WHAT

WHEN / WHERE

Department of Political and Social Sciences – University of Bologna 5-7 September 2018

TOPICS

The Fifth Conference of ASAI aims, first of all, to analyse the ‘Africas’, that is, the plurality of the phenomena that make up the wealth of diversity of the African continent and determine its deep asymmetries.

Here are the thematic lines:

 Plurality as pluralism in Africa in history and politics: forms of power and legitimacy.

 Plurality as a multiplicity of intra- and extra-continental African diasporas: social impacts, constructions, representations.

 Plurality as polyvalent forms of mobility in Africa: economic, social and political strategies.

 Plurality as the ‘multifunctionality’ of Africa in international relations: connections, disconnections, perspectives on ‘the global’

 Plurality as complex dynamics of marginalisation and poverty in Africa: opportunities and constraints of the global consensus on development

 Plurality as ‘polyhedric’ social and cultural propositions: production of knowledge, linguistic strategies, literary expressions

 Plurality as the variety of research methods on the ‘Africas’: issues of access to fieldwork and sensibility of the research subjects.

APPLICATION

Panel proposals should be sent in Word format to the e-mail address bologna2018@asaiafrica.org by 28 February 2018. They should consist of:

Title

Abstract (maximum 200 words)

Panel coordinator profile (maximum 50 words).

Titles, short abstracts (max. 150 words) and authors’ short profiles of the papers (max. 4 for each panel/session) included in the panel proposal (when this applies).

Panel proposals can be written in one of the three working languages of the conference (Italian, English, French), but in all cases they must be sent with their English translation.